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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections
Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - 2013
This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese municipal electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177332
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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections
Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - 2013
This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese local electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157000
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Voting with your wallet? : municipal budget policy and election results
Baert, Stijn; Matthijs, Herman; Verdievel, Ilse - 2018
association between these budget variables and the actual election results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857834
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Glass houses and friends-and-neighbors voting : an exploratory analysis of the impact of political scandal on localism
Mixon, Franklin G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-10
The 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election in Alabama, which was decided on 12 December 2017, was one of the most … this particular election provide the heretofore unexamined impact of political scandal on localism or friends …-and-neighbors voting in political contests. Based on data from the 2017 special election in Alabama, econometric results presented here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902828
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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper
Hessami, Zohal - 2014
state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485272
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Voting, taxes and heterogeneous preferences : evidence from Swedish local elections
Mörk, Eva; Nordin, Mattias - 2016
A standard finding in the literature on political agency is that voters punish incumbents who raise taxes. Typically, only the reaction of a representative voter is considered, with the notion that all voters dislike high taxes because the revenue is, at least on the margin, spent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446608
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289331
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Economic voting in Portuguese municipal elections
Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco - In: Public choice 155 (2013) 3/4, pp. 317-334
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746936
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382370
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Fiscal Decentralization and Voters' Choices as Control
Porto, Alberto; Porto, Natalia - 2009
This paper investigates, empirically, the voters' choices as a mechanism of control of the municipal governments in Argentina. In particular, the paper explores the question of whether voters choose to support the political party in office based on its fiscal performance while in office. After a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071253